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The conventional (and largely aspirational - though not rooted in reality) Washington story about the post-Iran-war Middle East is the Abraham Accords story: Israel at the center, the Arab states normalizing around it, an American-brokered...
Iran launched ballistic missiles at Israel yesterday (in response to Israel’s attack on Hezbollah), the first time the ceasefire between Israel and Iran was directly violated since April.
Iran launched ballistic missiles at Israel yesterda...
For eighty years, the European geopolitical order rested on a simple division of labor: Germany would be an economic giant and a military pygmy, and France would be the Continent’s military backbone, the nuclear power, the permanent member...
While the world watches the Iran drama, the Western Pacific is watching something quieter and arguably more consequential: the way American allies are responding to a Trump administration whose China-Taiwan policy has gone wobbly.
While th...
An important strategic shift has occurred on the Ukrainian battlefield, and the clearest sign of it is not a recaptured town, but burning trucks along highways.
An important strategic shift has occurred on the Ukrainian battlefield, and th...
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